👷🏾‍♀️ Amanda Builds Up

I matched at GEORGETOWN!! #match2026 #gumatch

I matched at my first choice! So excited to be going to Maryland to start my residency journey in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery! #match2026 #otolaryngology #ent #nrmp

We'll close this out with these. On the left is my car, and on the right in my grandfather's. This was before the restoration. Consider making donations to your local vocational school, and voting to support vocational education. Thank you all for checking this out!

Eid styles from Bamako, Mali ✨

During pre-op for a simple surgery, 3 different people asked me to confirm which side the surgery was supposed to be on At 1st it made me more nervous, then I was like, hmmm...

He's speaking for Bahamians, not the rest of us René Ménil & Édouard Glissant first developed the Antillanité principles in the 1960s Later, Kamau Brathwaite coined the term Nation Language in 1984

@JustAFamilyMan_ Regionalism! (It's really a bigger thing than people care to admit)

Besides other black groups, being permissive of letting non-black folk use the n-word, I have also noticed a trend that some black folk from California and NYC seem to be perfectly fine with that as well which is shocking to those of us south of the Mason Dixon line.

@4reezingPoint @alziclio This feels like a very specific Bahamian take on the region and its own interactions with its neighbors That's why many of us cannot relate

@alziclio I travel a bit. Also yes, I consider native creoles their own distinct languages. I still think we should learn the languages of our neighbours though, and not just Romance languages. Actual Bahamianese, creole, patois commonly spoken throughout the region amongst the majority

Or maybe you only consider people multilingual in certain regions due to prejudice because this was a very uninformed take. You also probably don’t consider various forms of Creole to be languages for the same reason. This doesn’t even take extensive research.

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

All the live music is gonna be geared towards the 35+ crowd b/c none of yalls artists can get butts in seats. They all have social anxiety and y'all ain't got no money.

🇻🇪💬 Créole du Venezuela! À base lexicale française, ce créole est parlé au nord-est du Venezuela, près de Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹. Les locuteurs sont aujourd'hui très rares, principalement quelques personnes âgées. Un décret de 2014 du président @NicolasMaduro vise à protéger cette langue en voie de disparition. #Venezuela #Créole

@wine_018 It costs nothing to be happy for others

@JasonKPargin You would want to go to a town called Weymouth Or find someone from there to talk to

Seriously though if I went to Boston and just walked around the streets, would the dudes there really be talking in that accent? like that's not really a thing is it

The Ghana Armed Forces has left Jamaica following months of humanitarian work to assist with recovery efforts after the passage of Hurricane Melissa. READ MORE HERE: ow.ly/TvQL50Yw6Vl

Back Home to bury another elder Auntie saw 90 yrs She left Barbados in 1955 for England & built a life there 30 years later moved to the US for another successful 30 years before retiring back home 🇧🇧 Blessed to have known her. Proud of her legacy of strength & achievement🕊️

The gourd banjo was invented in the Caribbean by Creoles.

On the left, drawings of early gourd banjos collected in Jamaica (now lost) in the 1690s. On the right, probably banjo tuning peg and bridge recovered from 1725-1750 context in a buried well shaft in Maryland.

Earliest documented banjo sightings in North American mainland. It's first seen being played by Caribbean slaves in 1736 New York; however, this description was actually written some years later. Our first contemporary description comes from Kent County, Maryland, in 1748.

@jarjoh @friendchristoph Extremist strawmen don't work on me, I said workable solutions, not perfect solutions Any changes or even staying same have effects. There were valid criticisms throughout the public meetings and no alternatives or options were proposed in response to community concerns

@AmandaBuildsUp @friendchristoph The majority of the 35k bus riders are local residents. They don't matter?

Boston got $80m in federal funding for center running bus lanes on Blue Hill Ave 6 weeks ago but the mayor has the project on a silent pause that hasn’t allowed it to move forward

Oscar or not, Delroy Lindo is one of the best to ever do it